This first model Colt Dragoon revolver was carried
by General George B. McClellan during the Civil
War. Colt made approximately 7,000 of these .44
caliber, six-shot repeaters between 1848 and circa
1850.

Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces
History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution
Behring Center
Gift of the Honorable George B. McClellan